The bible and religion?

Question

Some say that germs, God and the gun ruined Africa. Africa was on top of the world, we ruled the world before anybody. Why do historians want to take away our history and accomplishments. Is it our skin color, is it jelously or just ignorance? There are times I say screw it, we did do a lot for the world, but some choose to put us down. Some even go as far as to say Egyptians are caucasians, why? Egypt is in Africa not Europe, it's almost saying black people aren't that brilliant. We are the first kingdoms and civilization, it doesn't make sense !

What I mean is did religion and the bible give people the justification to use violence.

Answer 1

Wow, you are really focused on race. You start out saying germs, God, and the gun ruined Africa and then go on to say that whitey ruined Africa. You might want to work on the transition a bit.

And I bet you've never even been to Africa.

Answer 2

Which Historians are attempting to take away your history and accomplishments?

Caucasian is no longer a technical term...but when you look it up the dictionary you will find that egyptians could definately be considered caucasian. Most race related terms are somewhat arbitrary and that is why people typically self report as opposed to being considered something.

I know of no definition that required caucasians to come only from Europe. I have friends from India that consider themselves Caucasian. I know some First Nations people(indigenous Northern Americans) who consider themselves caucasian. I have friends from South Africa who consder themselves caucasian.

I know many brilliant people from all over the world. I dont know that any of them attribute their brilliance to the amount of melanin in their skin.

Check out this article concerning the specifying of North Africans as Caucasian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

I think you will find historically that many North Africans came to North Africa from somewhere else in the last 1000-1200 years.

I think you might also find this article very interesting reading concerning your question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_color

Answer 3

First of all you didnt rule anything! get over it.
Black people have been oppressed in the U.S. ever since there was slave trade. But Slavery never ended, it only changed color.
Everyone has oppressions to deal with, get over it.
The most oppressive people to the blacks were their own race.
Huh, there is no proof that Blacks ruled the earth, It is true that some black races had a superior hold in the world but I will guarantee you that Adam and Eve were NOT Black and they Ruled over their children First.
Some people claimed that Cain was cursed and became black. another tradition says that Noah's wife gave birth to a black son, and was going to reject it, but God reprimanded him. The book of Urantia says that there were 4 races here when Adam and Eve came as Ambassadors for God. But clearly there a world wide traditions of a BEARDED WHITE man as a Saviour and as a God in the world. So much so that people in this generation have been Searched for marks of the crucifixion when an entire villiage had never seen a white man before.

Ok, conclusion, Black People were NOT the First civilization
at best!!! blacks and caucasions lived side by side.

Answer 4

Actually, science has proven that the first humans were black, and as humans moved to colder climates, their hair, skin and eyes lightened as they no longer needed so much pigmentation to protect them from the sun. So I'd say that while we were busy evolving into caucasians, your people were evolving into stronger humans, which would in fact make blacks more evolved than caucasians, if that makes any sense to anyone but me. And yes, at one time Egypt was "the" major power. Id' have to say poverty (which happens when severe draught and famine hit an area, and has hit Africa way too much), was more to blame than anything else. How could Africa compete with world markets when their people are constantly suffering from starvation due to no food? So Africa lost the world power, just as the Romans finally did. Power rises and falls in time, that's nature.

Answer 5

I think it is one of the lies the devil made that people believe. I am Christian and do not. Moses wife was from Africa. I have also been told Solomon was of African decent. The important thing is that God made us all in His image and all people should treat all races like any other part of the human race. It is very wrong and I am proud to be a fellow member of the human race with the black, brown and if we had green them too.
The only way to change their minds is too be like Martin Luther King Jr and act in loving way. He is also a great reconciler of people and he will always have my respect. God is not a respector of color. He gave Africans darker skin to protect them from the sun and not so lighter people could look down on them.
I am white in case you are wondering.
Also keep in mind you probably are better off not having to associate with narrow minded people full of hate and predjudice anyway.
Also didn't a freed slave of African desent discover peanut butter and peanut oil. I really like peanut butter.
No one in their right mind could read about Oprah and all she has done for people and think any black person is less. She is proof enough for me. She is my oldest daughters hero. She reads every book on Oprah's book list. I think she is a fine role model and encourage it whole heartedly.

Answer 6

Not to put too fine a point on it but is there really some latitude you reach when you move north, from the equator up through Europe where the skin tones switch from black to white? I mean, I know a lot of Finns who are white, Congolese and west Africans I'd call black but basically Italians, Arabs, Egyptians I sort of put in between somewhere not just geographically but chromatically.

Answer 7

All life originated in Africa. So in the end, we're one and the same.

Answer 8

To argue over your flesh is a waste of time it perishs. We all are decendants of Adam and our flesh like his will perish we must be born again of spirit it is eternal. Flesh and blood will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 9

I certainly sympathize. I think it can be boiled down to 'the greed and arrogance of christian civilizations' Pardon the oxymoron.

Answer 10

As it is written:

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace..."

--Ecclesiastes 3:1-8


Peace be with you.